Bordeaux: Emmanuel Chignon managed to keep his care home in Western France ran through the worst Covid-19 pandemic, but now he faces a new crisis: staff who prefer to stop rather than obeying the government’s mandate that they will be vaccinated.
That, he said, would leave the shortage of staff to treat citizens: Six or seven staff did not have a shot when the mandate came into force on Wednesday, so it must be removed from Rotas work.
Meanwhile, the temp agents he usually follow to fill the staffing gap says they have fewer people to offer because many caregivers in their books also say they don’t want to vaccinate Chignon.
“We feel like they are undergoing the third wave, but this time is a wave of human resources,” Chignon said at the house he was running in Bordeaux, about 600 km (375 miles) southwest Paris, on Tuesday.
Under the mandate, all health workers and home care, domestic helpers, and urgent care technicians must have at least their first Covid-19 shot on September 15.
The government of President Emmanuel Macron introduced the rules to increase vaccination absorption and tried to prevent new virus flare-ups in the fall that would hamper the economy again as it began to recover.
The French authorities said that on September 7, about 84% of staff at home care and health care companies have received two vaccine shots.
‘No solid circle’ on health service workers refused to vaccinated, Martin Hirsch, head of the General Hospital in Paris, told The Frenchinfo Broadcasting: “They are very few, a handful.” But at the treatment house in Bordeaux, only a few missed people were enough to trigger a crisis.
The staff had been on the edge of the knife, with many people on sick leave, obsolete with the pressure of caring for residents through a pandemic.
The manager struggled to recruit new people to a difficult job, and paid badly.
“If we cannot replace the caregiver who goes, the work will fall on the others, and I’m afraid of a circle that doesn’t die, with fatigue, fatigue, and increased absence,” Chignon said, director.
One of those who planned to leave was Emmanuel Malinowski, 35, who had worked for five years as a caregiver at the house run by Chignon.
He said mandatory vaccination was a violation of his freedom and kick on teeth for the profession who had felt less valued.
“After two years we live in the care sector, it is the last straw,” he said.
At 5 P.M.
On Wednesday, Malinowski planned to submit his uniform and say goodbye to his colleagues.
After that, he planned a break in the Canary Islands, several months of life from his savings, and then maybe a career change if the vaccine mandate was not canceled.
“I saw my work continuing this work.
It tastes good, even though it’s difficult, caring for residents,” he said.
“But still, I made my choice.”